Long ago, at college in Nagpur, I had a friend -very smart, very stylish, very attractive and, of course, very brave. It was from her that I learnt never to have any holy cows in life but at that age I thought she carried both her profanity and irreverence towards people, situations and also social mores a bit too far. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, October 28, 2011 at 10:46 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Aamir Khan, Babasaheb Ambedkar, Bigg Boss, Dalits, DK Bose, Nagpur, Prickly Pears, Raj Thackeray, Sujata Anandan, Thackeray, Uddhav Thackeray
If this had been the Youth Congress or even the Yuva Morcha of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Bal Thackeray would have gone red in the face, spouted some purple prose and cried blue murder. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, October 21, 2011 at 8:52 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Aditya Thackeray, Bal Thankeray, Bharatiya Janata Party, bjp, hindustan times, NCP, news, Shiv Sena, Singly political, Sujata Anandan, Yuva Morcha
So who’s afraid of Anna Hazare?
No one except, perhaps, the Congress, I must say. And if at all the Hissar byelection results go in favour of the party, then perhaps no more after that. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, October 14, 2011 at 10:02 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Anna Hazare, bribery, Congress, corruption, Hindustantimes, Hissar byelections, HT blogs, news, Sujata Anandan, Team Anna, UPA
Now what did I say about Anna Hazare? That he is a loose canon? That he always makes statements and then retracts them? That he adopts positions and then goes back on them? That he never fails to leave his backers with a sense of being let down? Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, October 7, 2011 at 8:20 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Anna Hazare, Arvind Kejriwal, Bal Thackeray, Congress, hindustan times, Kiran Bedi, Matoshree, news, Prashant Bhushan, Rashtriya Swayamsevak, Shiv Sena, Singly political, Sujata Anandan, UPA